Door-check



I E. V. EBA-FORD.

(NoMod'e'L) Door-Check;

rim-236,329, Patented Jan. 4, 1.881.

WITNESSES:

. A TTOR/VEY.

N PETERS, PHDTO-UTMOGRAPIIER, WASHIIQGTON D. C

PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN V. HEAFORD, OF'COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

DOOR-CHECK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,329, dated January 4, 1881.

Application filed May 31,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN V. HEAFORD, of Oovington, in the county of Kenton and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Door-Checks, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an isometric view of the check. Fig. 2 is atop View of the movable piece. Fig. 3 is an end View of the same. Fig. 4. is a top view of the permanent part, which is secured to the floor; and Fig. 5 is a side view ot the whole combined.

The object of my invention is to provide a door-check which can easily be cast, that shall require no fitting of parts, and which in use employs no springs; and to this end it consists of a base-plate having two cars or projections, in which sockets are formed for the reception of lugs or journals on a movable piece, which latter is constructed in such form that its own weight will keep it. in position against the edge of the door, thus forming a gravity-check, as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Arepresents a base-piece of suitable length, having at each end an ear or projection, A, extending to one side. This plate is provided with a screw-hole near each end, and is intended to be secured to the floor near the base-board, or at any point on the floor where it is desired to check or hold the door. These ears are provided on their under sides with sockets B. Y

(3 represents a peculiarly-shaped rocking piece, provided at each end with a lug or journal, 0, adapted to lit-loosely in the sockets B of the base-piece A. The front part of the piece 0 projects forward. At the upper edge, and along the middle portion of the piece, a portion, D, somewhat wider than the ordinary thickness of the door, is cut away, forming a shoulder, D, near each end. The face of the piece 0 is sloped, as shown at E, so that the door, in striking the sloping portion in opening, will tilt the rockin g piece 0 sufficiently to allow the door to pass into the space indicated by D. On the opposite side from the cut-away portion D the piece 0 is hollowed or curved inwardly, and midway between the ends of the base-piece A there is a projection, B, against which the rocking piece 0 tilts and rests when the door strikes the angles E.

The piece 0 being alike at both ends, the check is adapted to be placed on the floor at either side of the door. Being cast in two separate pieces, and not necessitating any fitting in the various parts, it can be cheaply manufactored.

The lugs or journals (3 are placed in the sockets B before the plate is secured to the floor.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a door-check, the combination of the plate A, having an ear, A, at each end, and at its center an upwardly-projecting lug, B, with the rocking piece 0, having at each end a journal, G, and in the center a portion, D, cut away from the front to engage with the door, substantially as herein set forth.

EDWIN V. HEAFORD.

Witnesses J. S. ZERBE, S. STROBHART. 

